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C. SAUNDERS. TAPE FOR ADDING MACHINES.

APPLlCATiON FILED UECJO. 1917.

Patented May 31, 1921.

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Specification of Letters latent.

TENNESSEE, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE? ,Patented May 31', .1921.

' Application flied December 10, 1917. Serial No. 206,503.

To all whom it more cm wern.

Be it known that I, CLARENCE SAUNDERS, a citizen of theUnited States,residing at Memphis, Shelby count and State of Tennessee, have inventedand discovered certain new and useful lmprovements in Tape forAdding-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

, The object of my said invention is to vide a special tape for use withadding machines so constructed and marked that identification of everportion of the tape that passes through the. adding machine will becertain, and the absence of any part of a complete tape can be readilydetected by the auditin office. A further purpose is to insure abso uteaccuracy in checking up the tape with the amount in the cash drawer atan time. By the use of such a tape, and tie system which it involves, acash register can be dispensed with as a necessary part of a checkingand settlement sta' tion in a. store, and the expense thereof savedwithout dispensing with safeguards thetdare reliable, accurate anddifiicult to avoi illustrated a section of tape of the constructiondesigned for the purpose, and in said drawings Figure 1 shows the tapeas it is used, the illustration being a portion of said tape just afterit comes out of the adding machine.

Fig. 2 illustrates the same portion of tape after it has passed throughthe cashiers hands, one part ready for passing to the customer with theackage, and

strip of paper vision thereof. On oneside of the said per-' foratedline, arranged a short distance apart, are a series of identificationcharacters or marks. In the tape illustrated, I have shown a series ofnumerals running from 47 to 50 and it is understood of course,

that these numerals run to indefinite numfound desirable fortheparticularservice;

In the accompanying drawings, I have.

mounted on a roll, after the usual bers and are arran in sequence. -Inof each numeral have a letter may be used or not as preferred 'lfused oftapes. The letters may the numerals, or any other identificatiocharacters may be employed; as .may-ffbe.

it is for the purpose of identifyinga eerie be provided for. Thecombination of; 1e ters and numerals shown enables an aim indefinitevariety of identification marks,

series, to be provided.

The method of usin thista "ma -g described as follows: pe y as shown,and each roll of tape having its own identification mark, each roll canbe.

etape being menu factured with the identification. characters" on thelefthand sideof the perforated line, 3

made of record in the auditors ofiice, or in;

any ofiice having charge of the matter. W e

n a certain store, or checking clerk, or;

cashier, is given a roll of tape, it is charged up so that the auditorknows the person and the machine and lpllace to which the partic: ularroll goes. a e person at the store in serts the roll in theadding-machine and.

'said machine is then ready for use. The customer coming to the checkingclerk with a number of purchases, the checkin clerk adds up the pricesof the items on t e mechine in the usual way. The machine records theprices of the individual articles on the ortion of thef'tape on the sideof the er orated line opposite that portion hearin the identificationmarks orcharacers; en the articles are all tabulated thetotal is writtenimmediately beneath an this sub-total is preferably identified by aspecial character'such s own. The spacing mechanism is operated to movethe tape a few spaces; approxi-" mately one inch, when the auditorclears e machine and operates it"to imprint upog ev clearance totalwhich corres n V INK tape'the to the 'subtotal above. One of thestandard adding machines, cates this clearance star, as shown in thedrawings; A total is imprinted on the tape, the ortion= of the tapehaving the tabulation is torn off and handed to-the customer. Thecustotal on theta e by a tomer takes the tape portion to the cashier, A"

ays the amount who is near at hand, and indicated by'the total. T ecashier splits the tape down'the perforatedline 10 and at as the letter,S, as;

as now equipped, mdp.

i this a. point between the sub-total and the clear:

ance total tears it transversely handing the portion marked 11, in Fig.2, to the customer and retaining the portion marked 12, s'vhich. isfiledfor cas and auditing the accounts.

use in clieckingrup the he customer retains the portion marked 1l, and

\ taking his packages from the checking clerk,

leaves the settlement station. D

This system of checking has been devised particularly for use with selfserving stores and as a art of such a system of merchandising, w ereby acash register can be dis- Pensed with and the slips of tape 12 servepurchases, naturally would not be satisfied should he not receive thetape belonging to him. The cashier, on the other hand, would not knowthe amount of money to collect from'the customer unless the 'tape werehanded in at the time of making; settlement for the purchases. Thecustomers portion of the tape can be retained by him as a ready means ofkeeping account of his purchases and checking up his own expenditures.

- It is thus seen that the use of a cash register, and the tediousoperation consequent upon its use, may be dispensed with and in a busyplace, vvhere there are a number of customers standing in line to bewaited upon, the time required to'punch the keys 0. the cash registerand wait for the cash drawer to open is saved, which means a saving ofmuch time durin a busy days work in such a store and enab es the storeto wait upon a pro ortionately larger number of customers. Vhile a cashregister provides no absolute check on the cash, this system does, asevery slip is capable of identification, and any portion of the tape notturned in would be quickly missed by the auditor because of theseidentification marks.

Having thus described my said invent-ion, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A 'tape for adding machines perforated longitudinally and havingidentification characters on one side and adapted to have tabulatedrecords upon the other side and totaled with duplicate totals a distanceapart, substantially as set forth.

2. A tape for adding machines formed with a longitudinal perforation,having a Progressive series of identification characters arranged atintervals throughout the length of the tape, and on the other side ablank for reciving the tabulated records and totals. substantially setforth.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Memphis,Tennessee, this 5th day of December, A. D. nineteen hundred andseventeen.

C. (l. WALKER.

